On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 12:38 -0700, Systems Administrator wrote:
Does anyone know of a driver for the 2.6.5 kernel under SUSE Enterprise 9? The SUSE9 driver at the Promise site is for 2.4.21... I had this problem earlier in the year. Had a SUSE 8.0 Pro server running on an intel board with Promise IDE raid onboard. Why on earth Intel would put a promise controller on their boards is beyond me, but anyways.
The machine was running two 120GB discs, each master on either of the Promise interfaces, setup in a "hardware" raid-1. The contoller used the promise supplied driver for the 2.4 kernel. No drivers available from promise for 2.6. 2.6 kernel has a driver for the card, but it doesn't recognise the raid function - probably because it's completely software, and linux kernel does that already. Long story short I put the discs on the normal Intel controllers (non raid) and used linux kernel raid to make a mirror. It's a hell of a lot faster than anything on the promise ever was, and a lot more stable too. So if you're only dealing with two drives, I strongly suggest you put them on your normal IDE interfaces and use linux raid. -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy SagacIT (Pty) Ltd hansdp at sagacit dot com